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Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition

Summary

Originally, astronomers thought that black holes were truly black, but physicist Stephen Hawking has calculated that black holes slowly evaporate through a quantum mechanical process. Very small black holes should literally explode as a burst of gamma rays!